Enemies Within

Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781476727943
• eBook ISBN: 9781476727950
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: National Security
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Two Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists take an unbridled look into one of the most sensitive post-9/11 national security investigations—a breathtaking race to stop a second devastating terrorist attack on American soil. In Enemies Within, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman "reveal how New York really works" (James Risen, author of State of War ) and lay bare the complex and often contradictory state of counterterrorism and intelligence in America through the pursuit of Najibullah Zazi, a terrorist bomber who trained under one of bin Laden's most trusted deputies. Zazi and his co-conspirators represented America's greatest fear: a terrorist cell operating inside America.This real-life spy story—uncovered in previously unpublished secret NYPD documents and interviews with intelligence sources—shows that while many of our counterterrorism programs are more invasive than ever, they are often counterproductive at best.After 9/11, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly initiated an audacious plan for the Big Apple: dispatch a vast network of plainclothes officers and paid informants—called "rakers" and "mosque crawlers"—into Muslim neighborhoods to infiltrate religious communities and eavesdrop on college campuses. Police amassed data on innocent people, often for their religious and political beliefs. But when it mattered most, these strategies failed to identify the most imminent threats.In Enemies Within, Appuzo and Goldman tackle the tough questions about the measures that we take to protect ourselves from real and perceived threats. They take you inside America's sprawling counterterrorism machine while it operates at full throttle. They reveal what works, what doesn't, and what Americans have unknowingly given up. "Did the Snowden leaks trouble you? You ain't seen nothing yet" (Dan Bigman, Forbes editor).

INDEX

Abdelaziz, Ali, 153–54

Abu Bakr (Flushing mosque), 89, 94–95, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 116, 174, 175, 176, 200, 233, 235

Abu Ghraib prison photographs, 102

Afghanistan: CIA plan to capture bin Laden in, 38

civil war in, 96–97

Lindh case and, 182

migration of people to U.S. from, 91–92

mujahideen in, 93, 95, 99, 101

Northern Alliance in, 96, 99

post-Soviet, 95–96

Soviet invasion of, 93–94, 95

as staging ground for bin Laden and al-Qaeda, 98–99

Taliban in, 96–97, 99, 101, 103–4, 218

U.S. invasion of, 13, 99–100, 101–2, 108, 212

Zazi-Ahmedzay-Medunjanin trip to, 9, 16, 89, 103–18, 204, 246, 247, 268–69

Afzali, Ahmad Wais: Ahmedzay and, 244

arrest of, 272

“Consent to Search” home of, 245

as “cooperative,” 175

deportation of, 275

guilty plea of, 275

JTTF questioning of, 243–45

Medunjanin and, 232, 244, 246

and NYPD Intel-JTTF relationship, 228–29, 270

and NYPD Intel Zazi investigation, 174–75

raid on home of, 243

Sirakovsky relationship with, 174–76

Zazi family telephone calls to and from, 225–27, 228, 229, 231–32, 236, 245, 266, 282

Ahmad (Pakistani), 106–7, 110, 114, 116

Ahmad, Rauf, 260–61

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 23–24

Ahmedzay, Zarein: Afghanistan/Pakistan trip of, 9, 16, 89, 103–18, 204, 246, 268–69

Afzali and, 244

Afzali-Zazi telephone call and, 227

al-Qaeda interest of, 102

arrest of, 274

cover story for, 103, 104–5

and Denver police questioning of Zazi family, 226

disposal of bomb ingredients by, 199–200, 233

family of, 114, 116

FBI early interest in, 16

fears of, 199–200

financing of activities of, 103–4

FISAs for, 207

guilty plea and sentencing of, 274, 275

JTTF interview with, 268–69

JTTF investigation/surveillance of, 17...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Prologue
• One: The Marriage Is Ready
• Two: A Spy in New York
• Three: Heading East
• Four: Demographics
• Five: The Accidental Tourists
• Six: Zone Defense
• Seven: Ostermann
• Eight: Mosques
• Nine: The American Who Brings Good News
• Ten: In the Wind
• Eleven: Flight
• Twelve: People Die to Come Here
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• About Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright